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In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

moved out of reach. His journeys across the surface of England are overwhelmed by the difficultly of achieving pastoral consolatio...

through a symbolic manner, as it involves language. He notes, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a g...

the exchange of information as well as a press that is free to investigate, and even criticize, its government. These freedoms are...

atmosphere of oppression and dread that is remarkable in literature. But 1984 seems to go beyond the panopticon, which seems almos...

can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...

there. This is further evidenced by another critic who indicates how, ""George Orwell actually was indeed a policeman in Burma in ...

This essay contrasts the use of psychological manipulation in "The Truman Show," directed by Peter Weir, and George Orwell's 1984....

so now that it seems to be coming true. With newspapers disappearing and media companies merging into fewer and fewer giant corpor...

People, in theory at least, travel about at their leisure and enjoy what seems to be certain freedoms. On closer inspection, howe...

views she expresses. Moss attended "Bible college" and asserts that both her formal education and her religious background (which ...

In ten pages this paper examines how the theories of Charles Darwin have been represented in literature in a consideration of crit...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

like if the controlling powers in existence truly had all the power possible. As one author summarizes, "Orwell foresaw a world in...

2002). He ended up getting injured in this war as he fought the communists and eventually had to flee Spain for his life (Widmann...

he was concerned with. And, the issues he was concerned with came largely from personal experience with wars and turmoil. In man...

look like grim prophecy. In 1984, Goldstein describes a world in which Russia has absorbed all of Europe to make Eurasia. The...

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict that exists between public and private interests in a consideration of Faces at th...

In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...

In five pages the fictional representations of women featured in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dying by Will...

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...

The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

fair and easy (yet deceitful) life of communism. How does George Orwell relate all of this to animals, however? As George Orwe...

the animals and they all break out, running to the house where the food is kept. Mr. Jones discovers what has happened and he trie...

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

Orwell dao.htm). In "Road to Wigan Pier" we are presented with a much more specific culture it would seem, the culture of miner...